Hi everyone,

I am feeling pretty bad right now. I am really hurt and mad at something someone said, and I don't want to have to keep holding onto it. I wanted to get it out.

So, basically, I was in a small group discussion at school, where we were supposed to be talking about eugenics (a movement encouraging "good" people to reproduce and "defective" people not to, or forbidding them to). Anyway, someone brought up bipolar and how there were a traits of bipolar that people wouldn't necessarily want to pass on to their kids. So, this woman said something like, "Why would people who are bipolar want to have kids when they could adopt?"

I was so upset. I couldn't believe she said that, especially in the context of selective breeding that oppressed many mentally ill people in the past (they were sometimes forced to have medical procedures done so they couldn't have kids).

I don't like being told, or for people to imply, that the lives of people with bipolar aren't worth having. To strongly imply that bipolar people shouldn't have kids in case their kids turned out to be bipolar is like saying the lives of bipolar people aren't worth living, or that bipolar people are sub-par in some way.

This person knew I was bipolar when she said it. She said she said it even with that in mind. This is someone who I was friendly with and have been for three years.

I feel so angry and hurt.